Some other technical tools of Lean management discussed in the chapter include future-state Value Stream Map, Takt Time, Lean events, and Lean action item list.doi:10.1016/B978-012370517-4/50010-1Gerhard PlenertReinventing LeanPlenert, G. (2007): What are the technical tools of lean ...
Throughput Time(TPT) is a Lean Metric used to describe the elapsed time from process start to process end. It can be measured for a single process step or for the entire process. It is the sum of Processing Times, Preparation Times, Waiting Times and Inspection Times. Breaking TPT down in...
The Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle and Lean Manufacturing The PDCA cycle has become an important part of Lean manufacturing in many businesses. Like value stream mapping, OEE, and Takt time, PDCA can help identify waste for elimination and contribute to kaizen efforts. It's often used when a proble...
Lean is often thought of as being specifically for manufacturing. There is some truth to this if you think of Lean as a set of tools. Many of the tools are geared towards manufacturing. Kanban cards, SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Dies), 5S, Standard Work, and takt time are all tools...
What’s the difference between Takt Time, Cycle Time, and Lead Time? Why is it Important to Measure Cycle Time? As a critical key performance indicator, cycle time is an “all-in” number. It measures a product from its beginnings as a raw material or component through its completion as...
Heijunka is a term for production leveling, which is required to maintain even process flow, and meet customers' demand in a way that is orderly, sustainable, predictable, and efficient.
What is Lean? Lean was developed in Toyota as part of the Toyota Production System, which was built around the work of Shewhart and Deming. Toyota had been a client of Deming and established its operational management practices on the principles he taught. The fundamental driver of Lean is th...
Takt Time ensures the rate of manufacturing between stations is even Reduced setup times allows for producing small batches Use a pull orKanban system to manage amount of WIP. Waiting Waiting is perhaps the easiest of manufacturing wastes to overlook. Essentially, this waste occurs when time is ...
To complete your value stream map, fill it in with project data to make the areas of waste more visible. However even if the areas of waste seem obvious, you should still set focused time aside for map analysis. Areas of waste in lean management include: Overproduction (unnecessary ...
introduced Value Stream Maps (VSM) to us in “Lean Thinking”[i]and almost as long since John Shook and Mike Rother taught us how to draw them in “Learning to See”[ii]. Therefore, you would think that the need to answer the question posed by the title of this blog is long past....